use streams to write image data

[artemp]

It would be good to be able to output the raw data of a map image to a given output stream in the same way that you can output to file. For example:

Image32 buf(m.getWidth(),m.getHeight());
agg_renderer r(m,buf);
r.apply();
save_to_file(pngfile,"png",buf.data());

As well as save_to_file, have an output_to_stream function such as:

output_to_stream (std::cout, "png", buf.data());

[artemp]

[artem] Image data can be saved to any STL style stream. Other objects (buffers) can be easily adapted.

{{{
#include <mapnik/image_data.hpp>
#include <mapnik/png_io.hpp>
#include <mapnik/graphics.hpp>

#include
#include
#include

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
using namespace mapnik;
// create image and fill with colour
Image32 img(800,800);
img.setBackground(Color(0,0,255));

// save to file stream
std::ofstream file("test.png", std::ios::out| std::ios::trunc|std::ios::binary);
if (file)
{
save_as_png(file,img.data());
}
// save to string stream
std::ostringstream ss(std::ios::out|std::ios::binary);
save_as_png(ss,img.data());
std::cout << "buffer size = " << ss.str().size() << "\n";

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

}}}

[chngl]

Does python api have the similar function that can write the raw data to stream??
Thanks a lot

[springmeyer]

@felix-1128 - the http://mapnik.org/contact/ is the right place for support requests, not closed tickets.